Re: Using the perl API in C

perhaps there is something I have to feed the linker here?

-lperl, i.e. link against the perl library (either libperl.so or libperl.a (static) — if the linker finds both, the shared version takes precedence by default). Whether that's sufficient depends on what exactly you're trying to do.

See also perlembed.

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Re^2: Using the perl API in C by halfcountplus (Hermit) on Dec 20, 2010 at 19:53 UTC
In fact "-lperl" was my first guess, but that was not found. I didn't realize it was in a non-standard path, so I added "-L/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE"; of course it's then not found at runtime, so I added a softlink into /usr/lib64. But now I'm getting segfaults on basic stuff that worked fine in an XS module. Eg: `SV *r = newSVpv("hello world\0", 16);` [download] Leads to: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Perl_newSVpv (my_perl=0x0, s=0x400848 "hello world", len=16) at sv.c:6985 6985 new_SV(sv); Grrrr....	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Using the perl API in C by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit) on Dec 20, 2010 at 20:09 UTC
You'll probably also have to initialise the interpreter (`perl_alloc()`, `perl_construct()` - see perlembed for details), so memory management works. If you provide a self-contained sample of what you're trying to build, someone here might look into getting it to run... :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Using the perl API in C by halfcountplus (Hermit) on Dec 20, 2010 at 20:18 UTC
initialise the interpreter Yeah, silly me, I'm sure that would be true. a self-contained sample Nothing complicated, and I don't really need to do it this way, I can use XS.	[reply]